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A cargo ship discharging ballast water into the sea. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. [1] Cruise ships, large tankers, and bulk cargo carriers use a huge amount of ballast water, which is often taken on in the coastal waters in one region after ships discharge wastewater or unload cargo, and discharged at the next port of call, wherever ...
Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. The discharge of ballast water and sediments by ships is governed globally under the Ballast Water Management Convention, since its entry into force in September 2017. It is also controlled through national regulations, which may be separate from the ...
The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978, or " MARPOL 73/78 " (short for "marine pollution") is one of the most important international marine environmental conventions. [2] It was developed by the International Maritime Organization with an objective to minimize pollution ...
In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. [4] The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel was buffeted by strong winds on the morning of 23 March, and ended up wedged across the waterway with its bow and stern stuck on opposite canal banks, blocking all traffic until it could be freed. [5]
Crane barges surround the container ship Dali and the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on April 15, 2024. PORT OF BALTIMORE FULLY REOPENED AFTER $100M CLEANUP OF COLLAPSED FRANCIS SCOTT ...
A consignment of Friendly Floatee toys, manufactured in China for The First Years Inc., departed from Hong Kong on a container ship, the Evergreen Ever Laurel, [1] destined for Tacoma, Washington. On 10 January 1992, during a storm in the North Pacific Ocean close to the International Date Line , twelve 40-foot (12-m) intermodal containers were ...
X-Press Pearl was a Singapore -registered Super Eco 2700 –class container ship. The vessel entered service in February 2021 and was around 186 metres (610 ft) long. [2] It was operated by X-Press Feeders. On 20 May 2021, X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. [3] The vessel was engulfed in flames by 27 May and declared ...
Authorities identified the ship as the MSC Michigan Seven, a 997-foot, 74,000-gross ton, Liberian-flag barge. It had been heading outbound from the North Charleston container terminal and was ...